Glimpses of our national parks . nal Park, in addition to its celebrated Yo-semite Valley and lofty waterfalls, has in the north a river calledthe Tuolumne wdiich spouts wheels of water fifty feet and more intothe air. It has great areas of snow-topped mountains. The Sequoia National Park contains more than a million sequoiatrees, of which 12,000 are more than ten feet in diameter, and sometwice that and several from twenty-five to thirty-six feet throughfrom side to side. Measure thirty-six feet on the sidewalk and seewhat that means. Some of these trees are older than human history. The Glac
Glimpses of our national parks . nal Park, in addition to its celebrated Yo-semite Valley and lofty waterfalls, has in the north a river calledthe Tuolumne wdiich spouts wheels of water fifty feet and more intothe air. It has great areas of snow-topped mountains. The Sequoia National Park contains more than a million sequoiatrees, of which 12,000 are more than ten feet in diameter, and sometwice that and several from twenty-five to thirty-six feet throughfrom side to side. Measure thirty-six feet on the sidewalk and seewhat that means. Some of these trees are older than human history. The Glacier National Park was made by the earth cracking insome far distant time and one side thrusting up and overlapping theother. It has cliffs several thousand feet high and more than sixtyglaciers feed hundreds of lakes. One lake floats icebergs all scenery is truly Alpine. The Yellowstone National Park, beside its geysers, has many hotsprings which build glistening plateaus of highly colored mineral OUR NATIONAL The Highest Waterfall in the World, Yosemite National Park The Upper Yosemite Fall drops 1,430 feet sheer, nearly as high as nine Niagaraspiled one above the other. The Lower Yosemite Fall drops 320 feet. Theircombined height, including intermediate cascades and rapids, is half a mile OUE NATIONAL PARKS. P-/Di^ 1 r2^^ lICSIlJj^glimpsesofournat00yard
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